ChideockChampignons

Chideock Champignons are:

A local, resourceful mushroom farm that grows and picks high quality gourmet produce. We want to move away from the widespread world of the button mushrooms by highlighting the culinary and health benefits of the underground world of fungi.

Why we want to do this

We want to work with others to promote the South West as burning hotbed of fresh, local and desirable food.

Truffles to Trumpets, Puffballs to Pink Oysters, we want the world to know that the greatest of gourmet mushrooms are growing here - and that our chefs know how to use them.There has never been a better time for the discerning diner, from near or far, to delve deeper into the delicious world of wild mushrooms - the food scene is very much here and we hope that you will join us in playing it out, tongues a-tingling.

We are taking unwanted materials from local Joiners, Farmers, Thatchers and Tree Surgeons and turning the unnecessary into the edible - making use of nature's bounty and giving life once more to matter thought spent.

Ever expanding, we hope to meet forward thinking land owners - on land which we are given foraging rights we will provide a basket of fresh mushrooms for each successful forage AND will also notify the landowner of any trees that have been infected with parasitical fungi (helping to prevent potential nasty accidents in the future). Contact us if this applies to you.

Hear what we have to

Keep up to date with the latest happenings from the Shroomery - our blog is educational, interesting and chocked full of fungal fun. Nutrition, facts, eye opening info and more - a great read for all the family.

WHO are

Chideock Champignons are represented by Chris and Nick, two local chaps with over 15 years of foraging knowledge and a passion for all things fungal. By working together, two dreams have become one reality.

what we grow and

We grow things, we find things and there's other things which are just plain odd - have a look through our gallery to see the mushrooms we can provide - and the plain mad ones that we just like to talk about.